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Test 4 · Bicycles and other wheels

In a cartoon, a kid rides home in the dark with no lights and the cars all see him. What is wrong?

Mova's choice: option 4 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: kid, cars · What happens: ride, see, be · To what, where: cartoon, kid

This is test 4 of lesson 25 «Bicycles and other wheels» of the technology course of Mova's primary school. The page gives the question's syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause, then the 4 options as the student saw them, each with its tree and pragmatics. Every text is parsed by Mova itself. How the student answered it, with the score of every option and why: the test at school.

The question

Sentence 1: In a cartoon, a kid rides home in the dark with no lights and the cars all see him.

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	In	in	ADP	_	3 cartoon	case
2	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	3 cartoon	det
3	cartoon	cartoon	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 rides	obl
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 cartoon	punct
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 kid	det
6	kid	kid	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 rides	nsubj
7	rides	ride	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
8	home	home	ADV	_	7 rides	advmod
9	in	in	ADP	_	11 dark	case
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 dark	det
11	dark	dark	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 rides	obl
12	with	with	ADP	_	14 lights	case
13	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	14 lights	det
14	lights	light	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 rides	obl
15	and	and	CCONJ	_	19 see	cc
16	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	17 cars	det
17	cars	car	NOUN	Number=Plur	19 see	nsubj
18	all	all	ADV	_	19 see	advmod
19	see	see	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	7 rides	conj
20	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	19 see	obj
21	.	.	PUNCT	_	7 rides	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	ride	present	a kid			a cartoon		in the dark; with no lights; home property	vn nonvehicle-51.4.2 «NP.agent V»: agent=Agent
2	see	present	the cars	kid				all property	vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer he=Stimulus

One row per clause the reader finds. «not said here»: a role filled from the clause above. «roles by»: a VerbNet class and frame when one fits the verb, else the reader's rules on the tree.

Sentence 2: What is wrong?

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	3 wrong	nsubj
2	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 wrong	cop
3	wrong	wrong	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
4	?	?	PUNCT	_	3 wrong	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present						wrong property	tree rules

The options

Option 1

Bikes glow on their own at night

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Bikes	bike	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 glow	nsubj
2	glow	glow	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	on	on	ADP	_	5 own	case
4	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	5 own	nmod:poss
5	own	own	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 glow	obl
6	at	at	ADP	_	7 night	case
7	night	night	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 glow	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	glow	present	Bikes			Bikes's own	night		vn light_emission-43.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme on own=Location

Option 2

Nothing, cars have special night eyes

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Nothing	nothing	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	4 have	obj
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Nothing	punct
3	cars	car	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 have	nsubj
4	have	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	special	special	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 eyes	amod
6	night	night	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 eyes	compound
7	eyes	eye	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 have	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	have	present	cars	Nothing					tree rules

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

Drivers would find him hard to see: he needs white front, red back and something bright

The tree, 16 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Drivers	driver	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 find	nsubj
2	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	3 find	aux
3	find	find	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
4	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 find	obj
5	hard	hard	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 find	xcomp
6	to	to	PART	_	7 see	mark
7	see	see	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 hard	xcomp
8	:	:	PUNCT	_	10 needs	punct
9	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 needs	nsubj
10	needs	need	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 find	parataxis
11	white	white	ADJ	Degree=Pos	15 back	amod
12	front	front	ADJ	Degree=Pos	15 back	amod
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 front	punct
14	red	red	ADJ	Degree=Pos	15 back	amod
15	back	back	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 needs	obj
16	and	and	CCONJ	_	17 something	cc
17	something	something	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Ind	15 back	conj
18	bright	bright	ADJ	Degree=Pos	17 something	amod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	find	would	Drivers	him = he				hard property	vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Topic
2	see	to-infinitive	him = he not said here						vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer
3	need	present	he	white front red back					vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot back=Theme

Option 4 · ← Mova's choice

Only cars need lights, not bikes

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Only	only	ADV	_	2 cars	advmod
2	cars	car	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 need	nsubj
3	need	need	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	lights	light	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 need	obj
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 bikes	punct
6	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	7 bikes	advmod
7	bikes	bike	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 lights	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	need	present	cars	lights and bikes					vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot light=Theme

Text: the tests of Mova's primary school, written for Mova (world/data/school/), as the course runner gave them to the student. Trees: Mova's own parse — the en model on the CPU, when the site is built — not checked by a teacher; they may be wrong. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), each text read on its own. Elamur Cosmic License.

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